Somehow we survive : an anthology of South African writing
Title:
Somehow we survive : an anthology of South African writing
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edited by Sterling Plumpp ; illustrations by Dumile Feni.
Publication Information:
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, ©1982.
Physical Description:
xiv, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780938410027
9780938410010
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Contents:
The story of my day. Prelude / Mongane Serote -- Saviour / Zindzi Mandela -- Dead roots / Arthur Nortje -- Letter to Ipeleng on her birthday 1976 / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Waiting ; Midnight / Arthur Nortje -- Sequence for South Africa / Dennis Brutus -- Drink from my empty cup / Zindzi Mandela -- Night of terror / Willie Adams -- My sister / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- The blues is you in me / Sidney Sepamla -- Carnival at New Years / Julian deWette -- Staffrider / Matime Papane -- Note to Khatija / Essop Patel -- Pimville Station / Sidney Sepamla.
Leave me alone. I share the pain of my black brother / James Matthews -- Heaven is not closed / Bessie Head -- Native letter / Arthur Nortje -- Speak to me of mushrooms / Dennis Brutus -- Chimid : a memorial / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Awakening / Amelia House -- Creator / Julian deWette -- Christmas 1976 ; Uthekwane ; Demon exile ; Where are they now / Barbara J. Masekela.
What words? Foreign body / Arthur Nortje -- To whom it may concern / Sidney Sepamla -- A poem / Mongane Serote -- Sharpeville ; At a funeral / Dennis Brutus -- Another Alexandra / Mongane Serote -- ERA / Jaki Seroke -- I waited for you last night / Zindzi Mandela -- Dimbaza / Austin Cloete -- The echoes are breaking / James Matthews -- Requiem for my mother / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Untitled / Barbara J. Masekela.
New age. New age / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Austin Moving along ballad / Dikeni Bayi -- Phantoms / Barbara J. Masekela.
All hungers pass away. Somehow we survive / Dennis Brutus -- A piano toccata by Baldassare Galuppi / Dennis Brutus -- It is night / James Matthews -- All hungers pass away / Arthur Nortje -- Seaprankoe / Keorapetse Kgositsile.
Straight ahead. For my unborn child / Baleka Kgositsile -- Isandlhawana incarnate / Bheki Langa -- In the black gut / Mongane Serote -- In memoriam / Pascal Gwala -- Poem / Christine Douts -- Only to you / Ilva MacKay.
A prayer for Africa. Song (we sing) / Cosmo Pieterse -- A journey / Mongane Serote -- The sounds begin again / Dennis Brutus -- A prayer for Africa from the mouths of babies / Mandlenkosi Langa.
Oxford journal. Introduction / David Bunn -- Exploration ; Brief thunder at Sharpeville ; Late spring ; Reflections ; Poem in absence ; Courtnay rocks / Arthur Nortje.
Long road. No more strangers / Mongane Serote -- Guerrilla / Cosmo Pieterse -- The long road : the tunnel / Victor Matlou -- June 16 year of the spear / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Hanged / Dennis Brutus -- A luta continua / Keorapetse Kgositsile.